![]() Eliot, which was to influence his early writing. ![]() At Oxford University, fellow undergraduates were Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender, who, with Auden, formed the collective variously labeled the Oxford Group or the “Auden Generation.” At Oxford Auden studied Anglo-Saxon English and also becameįamiliar with modernist poetry, particularly that of T. Edmund's preparatory school, where he met Christopher Isherwood, who later gained a wide reputation as a novelist. His mother was a devout Anglican, and the combination of religious and scientific or analytic themes are implicit throughout Auden's work. His father was the medical officer of the city of Birmingham and a psychologist. Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England. Works in Biographical and Historical Context But contradictions notwithstanding, he continues to receive recognition as one of the most important poets of the century, and as one of its most representative figures as well. His early poems were praised for their political pertinence as well as their aesthetic modernity, and his later poems were condemned for their religious and political orthodoxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and acute intelligence in his poems. His works center on moral issues with strong political, social, and psychological orientations. Auden was a major English poet, one of the most important English-speaking poets born in the twentieth century. City Without Walls, and Many Other Poems (1969) Overview ![]()
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